At One Again Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABA ACAC DEDE BFBG HIHI A JAJA DKDK BLBL BMBN KOKO KPKP P QAQA QAQA BKBK KAKA BKBK KRKS BTBT D QAQA ASAS DUDU N HKHK VNVN BGBG AVAV ROR AAAA QOQ K DWDW GAGA KDKD AKAK QAQA K KAKA DVDV BABAI NOONDAY | A |
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Two angry men in heat they sever | B |
And one goes home by a harvest field | A |
Hope's nought quoth he and vain endeavor | B |
I said and say it I will not yield | A |
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As for this wrong no art can mend it | A |
The bond is shiver'd that held us twain | C |
Old friends we be but law must end it | A |
Whether for loss or whether for gain | C |
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Yon stream is small full slow its wending | D |
But winning is sweet but right is fine | E |
And shoal of trout or willowy bending | D |
Though Law be costly I'll prove them mine | E |
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His strawberry cow slipped loose her tether | B |
And trod the best of my barley down | F |
His little lasses at play together | B |
Pluck'd the poppies my boys had grown | G |
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What then Why naught She lack'd of reason | H |
And they my little ones match them well | I |
But this Nay all things have their season | H |
And 'tis my season to curb and quell | I |
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II SUNSET | A |
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So saith he when noontide fervors flout him | J |
So thinks when the West is amber and red | A |
When he smells the hop vines sweet about him | J |
And the clouds are rosy overhead | A |
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While slender and tall the hop poles going | D |
Straight to the West in their leafy lines | K |
Portion it out into chambers glowing | D |
And bask in red day as the sun declines | K |
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Between the leaves in his latticed arbor | B |
He sees the sky as they flutter and turn | L |
While moor'd like boats in a golden harbor | B |
The fleets of feathery cloudlets burn | L |
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Withdrawn in shadow he thinketh over | B |
Harsh thoughts the fruit laden trees among | M |
Till pheasants call their young to cover | B |
And cushats coo them a nursery song | N |
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And flocks of ducks forsake their sedges | K |
Wending home to the wide barn door | O |
And loaded wains between the hedges | K |
Slowly creep to his threshing floor | O |
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Slowly creep And his tired senses | K |
Float him over the magic stream | P |
To a world where Fancy recompenses | K |
Vengeful thoughts with a troubled dream | P |
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III THE DREAM | P |
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What's this a wood What's that one calleth | Q |
Calleth and cryeth in mortal dread | A |
He hears men strive then somewhat falleth | Q |
Help me neighbor I'm hard bestead | A |
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The dream is strong the voice he knoweth | Q |
But when he would run his feet are fast | A |
And death lies beyond and no man goeth | Q |
To help and he says the time is past | A |
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His feet are held and he shakes all over | B |
Nay they are free he has found the place | K |
Green boughs are gather'd what is't they cover | B |
I pray you look on the dead man's face | K |
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You that stand by he saith and cowers | K |
Man or Angel to guard the dead | A |
With shadowy spear and a brow that lowers | K |
And wing points reared in the gloom o'erhead | A |
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I dare not look He wronged me never | B |
Men say we differ'd they speak amiss | K |
This man and I were neighbors ever | B |
I would have ventured my life for his | K |
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But fast my feet were fast with tangles | K |
Ay words but they were not sharp I trow | R |
Though parish feuds and vestry wrangles | K |
O pitiful sight I see thee now | S |
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If we fell out 'twas but foul weather | B |
After long shining O bitter cup | T |
What dead why man we play'd together | B |
Art dead ere a friend can make it up | T |
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IV THE WAKING | D |
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Over his head the chafer hummeth | Q |
Under his feet shut daisies bend | A |
Waken man the enemy cometh | Q |
Thy neighbor counted so long a friend | A |
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He cannot waken and firm and steady | A |
The enemy comes with lowering brow | S |
He looks for war his heart is ready | A |
His thoughts are bitter he will not bow | S |
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He fronts the seat the dream is flinging | D |
A spell that his footsteps may not break | U |
But one in the garden of hops is singing | D |
The dreamer hears it and starts awake | U |
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V A SONG | N |
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Walking apart she thinks none listen | H |
And now she carols and now she stops | K |
And the evening star begins to glisten | H |
Atween the lines of blossoming hops | K |
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Sweetest Mercy your mother taught you | V |
All uses and cares that to maids belong | N |
Apt scholar to read and to sew she thought you | V |
She did not teach you that tender song | N |
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The lady sang in her charm d bower | B |
Sheltered and safe under roses blown | G |
'Storm cannot touch me hail nor shower | B |
Where all alone I sit all alone | G |
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My bower The fair Fay twined it round me | A |
Care nor trouble can pierce it through | V |
But once a sigh from the warm world found me | A |
Between two leaves that were bent with dew | V |
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And day to night and night to morrow | R |
Though soft as slumber the long hours wore | O |
I looked for my dower of love of sorrow | R |
Is there no more no more no more ' | - |
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Give her the sun sweet light and duly | A |
To walk in shadow nor chide her part | A |
Give her the rose and truly truly | A |
To wear its thorn with a patient heart | A |
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Misty as dreams the moonbeam lyeth | Q |
Chequered and faint on her charm d floor | O |
The lady singeth the lady sigheth | Q |
'Is there no more no more no more ' | - |
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VI LOVERS | K |
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A crash of boughs one through them breaking | D |
Mercy is startled and fain would fly | W |
But e'en as she turns her steps o'ertaking | D |
He pleads with her Mercy it is but I | W |
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Mercy he touches her hand unbidden | G |
The air is balmy I pray you stay | A |
Mercy Her downcast eyes are hidden | G |
And never a word she has to say | A |
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Till closer drawn her prison'd fingers | K |
He takes to his lips with a yearning strong | D |
And she murmurs low that late she lingers | K |
Her mother will want her and think her long | D |
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Good mother is she then honor duly | A |
The lightest wish in her heart that stirs | K |
But there is a bond yet dearer truly | A |
And there is a love that passeth hers | K |
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Mercy Mercy Her heart attendeth | Q |
Love's birthday blush on her brow lies sweet | A |
She turns her face when his own he bendeth | Q |
And the lips of the youth and the maiden meet | A |
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VII FATHERS | K |
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Move through the bowering hops O lovers | K |
Wander down to the golden West | A |
But two stand mute in the shade that covers | K |
Your love and youth from their souls opprest | A |
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A little shame on their spirits stealing | D |
A little pride that is loth to sue | V |
A little struggle with soften'd feeling | D |
And a world of fatherly care for you | V |
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One says To this same running water | B |
May be Neighbor your claim is best | A |
And one Your son has kissed my daughter | B |
Let the matters between us rest | A |
Jean Ingelow
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